4. The innovative and flexible knowledge economy can bring new life to obsolete industrial heritage buildings.

5. Considering the added value of the university for the knowledge economy, the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation should contribute substantially to the public funding of Dutch universities, next to the Ministry of Education, Culture & Science.

6. It takes a crisis – for example a fire – to change the academic workplace.

To order the 2011 BOOK "Managing the university campus" (Den Heijer, 2011):
- The paperback edition of the book is available for order at Eburon Academic Publishers (€49,-, excl. shipping).
- The ebook edition (€9,99) is available at Eburon, Amazon.com and for iPad at the iBookstore.

For more articles, papers, book chapters about managing the university campus, see PUBLICATIONS.

About this blog

Author Alexandra den Heijer (associate professor, TU Delft) started this blog when her book "Managing the university campus" was launched on March 4, 2011. The blog describes the process after the book launch: the publicity, many lectures, articles, papers, new research and visits to campuses all over the world.